Rural development

Rural development is a subset of the broader or comprehensive development which covers overall development of rural areas in order to imprve the quality of life of rural people.

Rural development is an integrated development approach and encompasses
the development of agriculture and allied activities such as crop farming, cottage industries, socio-economic infrastructures, areas,

Rural development has been conceptualized as a process, a phenomenon, a strategy, an approach and a discible for pursuing the cherished goal of sustainable rural development.

Rural development is a strategy to enable a specific group of people poor rural women and men to gain for themselves and their children more of what they want and need. It involves helping the poorest among those who seek a livelihood in the rural areas to demand and control more of the benefits of rural development.

Rural development means structural changes in the socio-economic situation in rural areas in order to improve the human welfare which is the prime goal of all development that secured at the earliest and the society is able to absorb changes necessary in the field of technology, man-environment relationship, population growth etc.

The process of rural development represents the entire gamut of changes by which a social system moves away from a state of life perceived as unsatisfactory towards materially and spiritually better condition of life.

The process of rural development may be compared with a train in which each coach pushes the one ahead of it and is in turn, pushed by the one behind, but it takes a powerful engine to make the whole train move.